“The Office” Heads to Winnipeg

In an episode that will air on November 13, Steve Carell — playing the office manager of Michael Scott — takes a business trip to Manitoba’s capital.

“It seemed like Montreal was maybe too exotic and Vancouver also a little maybe too conventionally sexy, and Winnipeg seemed to strike the right balance between exotic and obscure,” Brent Forrester, one of the show’s writers, told CBC News in an interview from Los Angeles.